[cc-community] cc usage stats
Mike Linksvayer
ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Nov 27 18:28:46 EST 2006
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 00:16 +0100, Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> at the risk of veering slightly off topic and going on a wild and
> abstract academic tangent, I think that the development of the 'metrics
> / stats' issue should include coming up with more transparent
> information about these statistics - currently a number based on highly
> fluctuating measurements and with several other serious difficulties
> (most importantly, not every 'hit' is a full fledged 'work') becomes
> transformed into a number: "150m licenses!" that gets widely presented
> with a high dose of certainty. i've seen this number in use and it
> *does* make a big impression - but I nevertheless feel transparency is
> important and at least in one point on the net there should be clear
> information about all the caveats surrounding the number.
I agree absolutely. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_statistics
contains a highly accurate if very imprecise statement "Estimating
license adoption is a *very* inexact science."
> furthermore, i think we could come up with less spectacular (at least
> initially) but more meaningful statistics - like number of journals
> using CC licensing; number of publishers; number of universities; number
> of press agencies (one? - Agencia Brasil - that's still a pretty good
> number after four years, I think)... and so on.
Yep, I encourage you to create http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics
or similar to record these ideas.
Another item in the queue is consistently gathering statistics from
curators, e.g., those at
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_curators -- Flickr alone at
20something million images is pretty impressive.
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